One of the best descriptions of this kind of phenomenon I have seen. When your job/identity depends on making abstract rationalizations, you’re going to keep making them however real world circumstances change
It's a particular type of Lawyer Brain, the Wine Party Lawyer Brain. If your job and/or identity is being Mr. Smarty Pants who comes up with abstractions to explain away current events as fitting some principled form only you can see, then you'll just keep making up those forms no matter what.
